SHOULD WE GROW GM CROPS?
What if you knew that detractors fear that GM foods might pose health risks for certain people
Allergies may be better than traditionally bread crops. Bacteria and our guts could pick up antibiotc-resistance in GM food. If this transfer happens, it could exacerbate spread of disease.
What if you knew that proponents assert that GM foods will promise many health benefits?
GM foods will have a longer life and will be better to eat
What if you knew that many feel GM crop technology will hurt small farmers?
Will make small farmers indentured to big firms. GM crops might be too expensive in developing countries, widening gap between rich and poor. GM crops will cause further reliance on monocultures. Monocultures are vulnerable to lethal attack by disease and pests.
What if you knew that GM patrons insist that farmers will reap great benefits from biotechnology?
GM propenents say that growers can avoid loss of crops and bring produce to market at less costs. GM crops are resistance to a single herbicide. Farmers will only need to use a single weed killer. Using one single herbicide can reduce land degredation. GM technologies are helping farmers reduce losses from frosts. It can help crops cope with disease and improve harvests.
What if you knew that opponents fear that GM crops could harm the environment?
GM can harm wildlife, a research showed that 56% larvae survived when fed GM milkweed plants. Viruses will snatch resistance traits form GM crops. These viruses can evolve new strains that can infect a whole range of plants.
What if you knew that advocates maintain that GM technology will help the environment?
If crops are able to resist invertebrate predators, farmers can use fewer chemicals . Farmers raising crops that bear herbicide resistance will use fewer chemicals than growing conventional soybeans
What if you knew that many people feel genetically modifying organisms goes against Nature?
Fiddling with genetic makeup is unnatural. Nature takes millions of years to effect genetic change. Do we have wisdom to substitute human for natural selection? to play God? Many argue that acts are immoral.
What if you knew that scientists submit that genetically modifying plants is completely natural?
Plants and animals genetically modify themselves all the time. It is the basis of evolution. Modern GM methods are more precise. GM technology allows for the exchange of a single gene between plants. GM procedures are also much faster. In months or years, molecular scientists can accomplish the same degree of alteration that might have taken Nature millions of years of achieve.
What if you knew that many critics inveigh against biotech companies for being profit-driven, with little concern for potential risks to people or nature?
Companies are over-promoting benefits of GM technology and underestimating possible health, socioeconomic and environmental hazards. Companies are concentrating efforts in high-volume crops and not in crops that might help feed billions of people in poor countries.
What if you knew that companies that fashion GM seeds maintain that GM crops hold the greatest hope for adequately feeding our rapidly expanding world population?
Innovation is the only way to meet the world's burgeoning needs for food and medicines in a rapidly shrinking and increasingly scarred natural environment. Result of innovation is GM crops that will offer best chance to address challenge of feeding the estimated six billion people that will join the six billion people already here.
What if you knew that many critics assert that GM foods suffer from dangerously poor oversight and regulation?
GM companies are deploying GM crops too quickly and broadly without adequate testing or public debate. If you don't know what you're eating, you don't have the option of choosing not to buy foods with GM ingredients. If you get sick from a GM food, no one will trace the illness back to the source.
What if you knew that GM seed companies maintain that GM crops are the most thoroughly tested and highly regulated food plants out there?
Every GM crop is thoroughly tested for health effects. The goal is to see whether an introduced gene alters the GM plant's chemical makeup and nutritional value. Industry spokepersons argue that testing systems have worked well. They are also stepping up their vigilance.
What if you knew that detractors fear that GM foods might pose health risks for certain people
Allergies may be better than traditionally bread crops. Bacteria and our guts could pick up antibiotc-resistance in GM food. If this transfer happens, it could exacerbate spread of disease.
What if you knew that proponents assert that GM foods will promise many health benefits?
GM foods will have a longer life and will be better to eat
What if you knew that many feel GM crop technology will hurt small farmers?
Will make small farmers indentured to big firms. GM crops might be too expensive in developing countries, widening gap between rich and poor. GM crops will cause further reliance on monocultures. Monocultures are vulnerable to lethal attack by disease and pests.
What if you knew that GM patrons insist that farmers will reap great benefits from biotechnology?
GM propenents say that growers can avoid loss of crops and bring produce to market at less costs. GM crops are resistance to a single herbicide. Farmers will only need to use a single weed killer. Using one single herbicide can reduce land degredation. GM technologies are helping farmers reduce losses from frosts. It can help crops cope with disease and improve harvests.
What if you knew that opponents fear that GM crops could harm the environment?
GM can harm wildlife, a research showed that 56% larvae survived when fed GM milkweed plants. Viruses will snatch resistance traits form GM crops. These viruses can evolve new strains that can infect a whole range of plants.
What if you knew that advocates maintain that GM technology will help the environment?
If crops are able to resist invertebrate predators, farmers can use fewer chemicals . Farmers raising crops that bear herbicide resistance will use fewer chemicals than growing conventional soybeans
What if you knew that many people feel genetically modifying organisms goes against Nature?
Fiddling with genetic makeup is unnatural. Nature takes millions of years to effect genetic change. Do we have wisdom to substitute human for natural selection? to play God? Many argue that acts are immoral.
What if you knew that scientists submit that genetically modifying plants is completely natural?
Plants and animals genetically modify themselves all the time. It is the basis of evolution. Modern GM methods are more precise. GM technology allows for the exchange of a single gene between plants. GM procedures are also much faster. In months or years, molecular scientists can accomplish the same degree of alteration that might have taken Nature millions of years of achieve.
What if you knew that many critics inveigh against biotech companies for being profit-driven, with little concern for potential risks to people or nature?
Companies are over-promoting benefits of GM technology and underestimating possible health, socioeconomic and environmental hazards. Companies are concentrating efforts in high-volume crops and not in crops that might help feed billions of people in poor countries.
What if you knew that companies that fashion GM seeds maintain that GM crops hold the greatest hope for adequately feeding our rapidly expanding world population?
Innovation is the only way to meet the world's burgeoning needs for food and medicines in a rapidly shrinking and increasingly scarred natural environment. Result of innovation is GM crops that will offer best chance to address challenge of feeding the estimated six billion people that will join the six billion people already here.
What if you knew that many critics assert that GM foods suffer from dangerously poor oversight and regulation?
GM companies are deploying GM crops too quickly and broadly without adequate testing or public debate. If you don't know what you're eating, you don't have the option of choosing not to buy foods with GM ingredients. If you get sick from a GM food, no one will trace the illness back to the source.
What if you knew that GM seed companies maintain that GM crops are the most thoroughly tested and highly regulated food plants out there?
Every GM crop is thoroughly tested for health effects. The goal is to see whether an introduced gene alters the GM plant's chemical makeup and nutritional value. Industry spokepersons argue that testing systems have worked well. They are also stepping up their vigilance.